Image of statue’s human face spotted in NASA Mars photo

“First, I’m not a nutjob, but I just want someone to explain it. If there’s nothing to it, fine. If there’s something to it – fine. But, I’d like someone to look into it. It sure looks like a half a face from a statue to me.”

That was Jeff Jones, just a regular guy who drives a truck and in his free time occasionally likes looking at pictures of moons, planets, alien landscapes such as that of Mars, etc. He said he recently ran into some of NASA’s panorama shots from the Curiosity rover and was scrolling through it when — wham-o!

The human-like face that looks as if it was knocked off a statue or part of a sculpture just leapt out at him.

“I thought, ‘That’s scary.’”

So, he emailed us in hopes it would be published … and the mystery of the statue’s face on Mars will be solved. He saw the Mars face in a panorama created by Andrew Bodrov. However, we found the original image by digging around in NASA’s photo archives and that’s what you’ll see in the gallery above.

Video: Relive the magic of Curiosity’s landing on Mars:

Let us know what you think. After all, as Jones pointed out, if there was life on Mars millions of years before it became a desolate planet … that life could have generated human-like creatures. In fact, one researcher has found that life on this planet probably got a boost from elements delivered here on rocks blasted at us from meteor strikes on Mars. So, is it impossible that we evolved to look like creatures that once lived on Mars?

This isn’t the first time something unexpected has been spotted on the red planet … or conjectured to live there. Check out the gallery below to see old, mysterious images of and from Mars.